Assuming you have taken Professional Responsibility (or Legal Ethics, or however it's called at your school), how long does it take, more or less, to study for the MPRE?

I just signed up for the November test, and am wondering whether this is a matter of a day or two of studying, or whether I'm looking forward to two weeks of work.

Also, has anyone done the free course on Kaplan's website? Any good?

I'm taking the MPRE in Nov. too. I've heard various reports on how long it took to prep: anywhere from "one day of focused study was too much" to "I worked on Barbri's materials for a week and still didn't feel good about it."

Now that I type that out though, it seems like both of these individuals could have spent about the same amount of time (8-10 hrs, maybe?). I don't know.

I also signed up for the free Kaplan course. I haven't done enough yet to know if it's any good. All I know is that it's free.

I'm putting it off until the spring myself. I've already taken Ethics, so I expect any prep that I do to be more of a refresher than anything else.

So, to those who did it today, how did it go?

I think in the end I felt somewhere in between those two individuals in PB's post. I spend a day and half or so, but I can't say I felt that I mastered the material, not at all.

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Well, sounds like you passed, since you don't really need much more than 50% correct! (Passing is something like 25-30 out of 50.)

Though passing scores vary from state to state, in most cases a passing score is well under the average score. Sometimes I feel tests like this exist just to force you to actually look at the rules at least once, so you can't use the "I didn't know it was wrong to sleep with my client" excuse at a later date.

I haven't taken ethics yet, but I'm surprised that's wrong. I guess that MPRE studying will be worth something for me!

That's what I think too.

There were tons and tons of questions that I was 50/50 on. Only a couple I had no idea. But not as many as I'd like that I felt certain about. Whatever... it should be fine. But I really do hate waiting for results.

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Possum: it's wrong only if there wasn't a consensual sexual relationship that preceded the legal representation. (And these are the Model Rules. Rules may be different in different states.)



Yes, I had the exact same thought en route to the exam today.

Which means sleep with everyone who walks into your office PRIOR to talking law with them.

The general consensus up here is that it was harder than most expected. The students I talked to said that the questions on the actual test were different than those provided by the test prep companies, including both BarBri and Kaplan, though it's hard to explain exactly how they were different.

As to how I did...who knows.

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This is going to sound really douchie, but honestly, I had a ton of school work / law firm work the week I took the MPRE and wound up studying from 12am to 3am the night before sleeping 4 hours, going in, taking the test and got something like a 118 or a 120. The barbri book, as I recall, was pretty good.

Holy FUCK.

86

Squeeeeaked by. Lowest possible score that is high enough in every state.

You are so unethical.

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I would actually have liked to reverse transfer MBE or MPRE points over to my LSAT.. I had wayyyy too many on both for purposes of passing the NY bar.. My MBE was about a 160.. Talk about having your best day when it counts lol.

TTTLS.. You're taking the July-2010 NY exam?

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Which jurisdiction?

LOLOLOOLOL!!!!!

Great work!

I passed too.

I can now report that the Kaplan course is decent enough to pass.